[pacman-dev] cvs unusable on x86_64

Piche, Kevin kevin.piche at cgi.com
Wed Oct 25 11:36:34 EDT 2006


I looked at this too.  The SIG11 goes away if you compile without -O2.
When looking at it with gdb most function arguments seemed to be
"optimized out".  If you compile without the -O2 it still displays
strangely.  The SIG11 happens when vim*.part starts downloading.

Frankly I don't like ftplib - it doesn't work with proxies so I have to
use wget.  Maybe we should switch to libcurl or something.

k


-----Original Message-----
From: pacman-dev-bounces at archlinux.org
[mailto:pacman-dev-bounces at archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Christian Hamar
alias krix
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 7:42 AM
To: Discussion list for pacman development
Subject: Re: [pacman-dev] cvs unusable on x86_64


> still segfaults. i would suggest asking a shell access from an Arch64
> dev, i neither have such a machine phisically. anyway here is the
> commandline to reproduce the issue:
> 
> vmiklos at helicon:~/darcs/pacman/src/pacman$ sudo rm -f
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/vim* /tmp/pacman.lck; sudo ./pacman -Sw vim
> --noconfirm
> resolving dependencies... done.
> 
> Targets: vim-7.0-2
> 
> Total Package Size:   5.0 MB
> 
> Total Uncompressed Package Size:   16.3 MB
> 
> Beginning download...
> 
> :: Retrieving packages from frugalware-current...
> Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault00:00:00 [
> ]   0%
> Please submit a full bug report, with the given package if
appropriate.

Strange. I did some work at this code. I found one thing only which will
be x86_64 specific. In pacman.c there is a callback point (as i remember
it was in pacman.c :) ) which got some : (long)log_progress()
definition.

Actually in download.c (and in.h) the log_progress function is 

int log_progress(...)

I tried to change from int -> long in download.c and .h to see that
cause the problem or not. No, that wasnt :) (as you know on x86_64 int
and long matters, because of size difference)

So the problem still exists. I catched up some backtrace with the not
debug binary pacman and seems that it segfaults at FtpRead() function.

That is strange too. 

A notice for this, the main progressbar moves to some ~5 or 10% and
crashing after that. So it will be some magic buffer overrun
somewhere :S 

Still i will work on it (cause i got x86_64 machine) and maybe see what
i can do. 

Regards

Christian Hamar alias krix



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